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j5{5jj5~s US VOWS TO KEEP UP
j5op0ozz5p PRESSURE ON SADDAM
The United States will keep pressing
for thj ovjrthrow of Iraqi president
Saddam Hussjin, White Housj spokesman
Marlin Fitzwater has said.
"'j will maintain UN sanctions and keep
Saddam's regimj isolated, a pariah
among nations", he added.
In a televised statemjnt marking the
annivjrsary of the allied attack on
Iraq, hj said thj war had left Saddam
Hussjin "greatly weakjned".
Mr Fitzwater refused to rule out an8 US
option in bringing about the ovjrthrow
of the Iraqi president.
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